Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution ControversyCambridge University Press, 14 juin 1984 - 260 pages Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to selections of non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. The series provides students, primarily though not exclusively those of English literature, with the opportunity of reading significant prose writers who, for a variety of reasons (not least their generally being unavailable in suitable editions), are rarely studied, but whose influence on their times was very considerable. Marilyn Butler's volume centres on the great Revolution debate in England in the 1790s, inspired by the French Revolution. The debate consists of a single series of works which depend for their meaning upon one another, and upon the historical situation which gave them birth. Major tracts by Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France), Paine (The Rights of Man), and Godwin (Enquiry Concerning Political Justice) are given at length, while important shorter pieces by such writers as Hannah More, Thomas Spence, and William Cobbett appear virtually complete. The volume is especially interesting for its portrait of a community of oppositional writers. Many of them knew one another personally, and stimulated and sustained one another against the pro-government majority. Their collaborative literary enterprise, and its break up, offer a fascinating perspective on Romanticism and the growth of an extra-parliamentary opposition functioning through the press. The volume also reveals the impact of the great debate on writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. As with other titles in the series, the volume is comprehensively annotated: obscure allusions to people, places, and events are glossed in footnotes and endnotes, while prefactory headnotes comment on the circumstances surrounding the composition of each extract. In a substantial introduction Dr Butler offers a broad examination of this pamphlet war and its main participants. There is a helpful critical guide to further reading for those wishing to pursue their study of the subject. The volume will be a vital sourcebook for students of English Romantic literature, history, and political history. |
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Table des matières
III | 1 |
IV | 18 |
VI | 23 |
VII | 33 |
IX | 49 |
X | 60 |
XI | 72 |
XIII | 74 |
XXVI | 145 |
XXVIII | 149 |
XXIX | 169 |
XXX | 179 |
XXXI | 185 |
XXXIII | 189 |
XXXVI | 195 |
XXXVII | 198 |
XIV | 80 |
XV | 83 |
XVI | 84 |
XVII | 90 |
XVIII | 96 |
XX | 102 |
XXI | 107 |
XXII | 122 |
XXIII | 129 |
XXIV | 136 |
XXV | 142 |
XXXVIII | 203 |
XL | 206 |
XLI | 209 |
XLII | 214 |
XLIII | 220 |
XLV | 224 |
XLVI | 226 |
XLVII | 233 |
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Antijacobin appear aristocratic authority Ballads believe Birmingham Bishop of Landaff Burke Burke's Caleb Williams century church civil Cobbett Coleridge common consequence constitution corruption crown Dissenters Duke of Bedford E. P. Thompson endeavour England English equal expence farmer favour France French French Revolution friends Godwin happiness honour human individual intellectual interest Jack Jacobin John Thelwall Joseph Priestley King kingdom labour land language liberty literary lived London Lord Lyrical Ballads mankind manner Marie Antoinette Mary Wollstonecraft mind ministers monarchy moral nation nature never opinion Paine Paine's pamphlet parish Parliament passions persons philosophers Poet Political Justice poor present Priestley principles prose radical reader reason Reflections reform religion Revolution Richard Price sentiments shillings society Soldier Spence spirit suppose taxes Thelwall thing Thomas Spence thought tion Whig whole William Wordsworth writing